An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another 'city-slicker' in search of a quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped in the lair of a 'rogue' crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bay and in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Their first attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea - they must trap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of the island whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, but without warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails to resurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifying struggle ensues with only one probable outcome death. An American journalist on assignment in the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile while trapped on a rapidly flooding mud island. I saw Rogue this morning at a preview screening in Melbourne, I've been looking forward to this film for some time. I don't want to say that it was a disappointment as it is a solid effort. There is nothing that stands out as something I think should have been done differently.<br/><br/>Some wandering British and American accents from the mostly Australian cast can be forgiven.<br/><br/>The obvious difference between the locations in the Northern Territory and those in Victoria caused a brief chuckle (mainly because director Greg McLean introduced the film and commented that he hoped the transition would be seamless), though this may go unnoticed by foreign (non-Australian) audiences.<br/><br/>Visual effects were highly competent, I doubt that the average cinema-goer will pick the matte paintings or have an issues with the CG croc. <br/><br/>The main issue I have is that the film lacks the suspense and excitement of a truly great monster/horror film. Due to the nature of the material this will have to be compared to Jaws and Rogue will inevitably suffer. A fairer comparison has to be Lake Placid, and in that scenario Rogue also comes off second best. Rogue lacks the suspense and the humour of the American monster Croc effort.<br/><br/>This follow up to Wolf Creek was written long before the surprise Aussie hit, Rogue has the hallmarks of a first feature script, hitting all of the genre conventions without ever attaining any moments of originality.<br/><br/>If you enjoy this kind of monster movie (and I do) you'll find it a decent way to spend a couple of hours, you won't be missing much if you see it on DVD. Apart from Radha Mitchell looking great in khaki shorts, and believably playing a 28 yr old, though she has to be at least 35.<br/><br/>Nice job over all, good job, not great but good. An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile.<br/><br/>Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another 'city-slicker' in search of a quick thrill.<br/><br/>After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink.<br/><br/>With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island.<br/><br/>With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realise they are trapped in the lair of a 'rogue' crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill…<br/><br/>The director of Wolf Creek lacks bite in this follow up movie, as this is just another monster movie come the end.<br/><br/>The first ten minutes though show the genius that the man had with Wolf Creek. it's disturbing, in a deliverance style way, with the man from Chicago looking pretty much alien to the locals, who look like they will jump on him at any time.<br/><br/>Then its boat trip time, and the director has put something of a little quiz in the film for the viewers. The next fifteen minutes consists of the tourists, showing their bad habits, traits and annoyances before something happens, this is what is also known as, 'let's guess who gets killed and in what order'.<br/><br/>Once the boat crashes onto the island, instead of becoming tense and taut, the story becomes saggy, and the film loses interest in itself, just worrying about the (impressive) CGI croc, rather than character.<br/><br/>Instead of being something different, it just turns into another by the numbers monster movie, which looks absolutely beautiful, but is as hollow as an Easter egg.<br/><br/>poor.
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